Alan Kay in his TED video says that we don't see things as THEY are, we see them as WE are. You can see the TED video here. Kay is brilliant, in my opinion. His chief contribution is to help us learn how to learn. He also said, "We can't learn to see until we admit we are blind." This is 20 minutes but worth the watch.
I wish you a 2011 filled with learning of all kinds. And I appreciate that you are helping your clients learn so each company can bring its core talent to the world.
The editor of the article says about Kay, "The multi-pronged visionary influence of Alan Kay can be seen in so many present-day narratives about the convergence between education, the arts, learning and technology. Early influences by educators such as Seymour Papert and Jerome Bruner led Kay's breakthrough work at Xerox's research arm PARC developing workstations and programming language Smalltalk, later commercialized by Apple. Dubbed as a modern-day Einstein and life-long voracious learner, Kay is also iconoclastic in his opinions about technology, learning and education. He has been a Xerox Fellow, Chief Scientist of Atari, Apple Fellow, Disney Fellow, and HP Senior Fellow. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at UCLA. In 2001 he founded Viewpoints Research Institute, a non-profit organization dedicated to children, learning and advanced systems research. The following essay is one of a series as part of a recent birthday tribute contributed by various luminaries "masterminded" by Kim Rose, co-founder and executive director of VPI. Points of View is a collection of previously-unpublished essays written by "twenty-nine luminaries from diverse disciplines"."
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